Fit Feet Clinical Director Training
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•The ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data along with the dissemination of information to
plan implement and evaluate public health interventions is known as Surveillance.
•The limitations of surveillance are listed below:
▪Surveillance cannot capture every morbidity event.
▪Not all cases have access.
▪Surveillance cannot provide true incidence or prevalence of event in the community.
▪Surveillance cannot explain root causes for an event.
▪Surveillance cannot explain the reasons for improvement and replacing M&E.
•Characteristics of effective surveillance include:
▪Establishing other public health activities at the same time in the phase of emergency response
▪Engaging with a wide range of stakeholders
▪Being simple and clear for workers as well as utilizers
▪Defining thresholds for the target diseases
▪Functioning in the recovery phase of a disaster
▪Integrating surveillance in the routine health information system
•CD surveillance used during emergencies should be designed to answer the following questions:
▪What do you want to know?
▪How often do you want to know?
▪Whom do you want to know about?
▪Where it should be done?
▪How should it be done?
•Surveillance requires time, place, and person.
•While constructing surveillance, it is important to keep a tab on the baseline data available on population, endemic
diseases, potential vectors for air, water, and vector-borne diseases. Lastly, it’s important to assess the current
capacity of the current healthcare systems and health programs.